http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/02/the-kindle-text-to-speech-fuss-big-publishers-were-the-real-powers-behind-amazons-tts-retreat-says-authors-guilds-paul-aiken/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:06:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/02/the-kindle-text-to-speech-fuss-big-publishers-were-the-real-powers-behind-amazons-tts-retreat-says-authors-guilds-paul-aiken/comment-page-1/#comment-1017177 Dusk Peterson Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:12:55 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/02/the-kindle-text-to-speech-fuss-big-publishers-were-the-real-powers-behind-amazons-tts-retreat-says-authors-guilds-paul-aiken/#comment-1017177 I'm rather bemused that the Authors Guild is attacking Kindle rather than go after Adobe (whose Acrobat Reader has text-to-speech) and Microsoft Reader (which also has text-to-speech). Has the Authors Guild just woken up to the existence of text-to-speech? I’m rather bemused that the Authors Guild is attacking Kindle rather than go after Adobe (whose Acrobat Reader has text-to-speech) and Microsoft Reader (which also has text-to-speech). Has the Authors Guild just woken up to the existence of text-to-speech?

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